UIS CSAEM Recommendations
UIS Culture Satellite Account Experts Meeting (CSAEM)
4-6th November 2015
Purpose of the CSA
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Need to consider why the CSA is being developed
What are we trying to measure?
Target audience: policy makers, statisticians, academics,
culture associations
Marketing tool: need to design an excellent communication
tool
Explain scope and limitations of CSA
Explain how to use the results of the CSA
Include minimum requirements before undertaking CSA
Initial step is to develop national cultural statistics
Lessons learnt from national and regional
experience CSA
◦ Need to take into account the different statistical
capacity of countries
◦ Country experiences: CSA built from existent SNA with
some adjustments (CAN, AUS, FIN)
◦ Latin America CAB:
 SNA not accurate enough.
 CAB Methodology developed outside
 Objective to improve SNA
◦ In Africa, SNA not correctly compiled and poor
quality
Proposal for the CSA’ scope
◦ Definition culture for CSA: “from an economic operative
perspective” purpose
◦ Core 2009 UNESCO FCS cultural domains
 Excluded
 Tourism: cultural tourism are captured in some domains
 Sports: deserve a separate account or modular approach like CAN
 Clear definitions of 2009 FCS Sub domains
 Define how to deal with transversal domains
 Challenging domains: valuation issue
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Tangible Heritage
Intangible Heritage
Handicraft
Festivals
 Require different types of measure
 As non monetary indicators
Initial Methodology
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Need to identify core tables
◦ Production/output tables
◦ Supply/use
◦ Employment
 Use of the Trident Approach
 Volunteer work
◦ Gross Fixed Capital Formation
◦ Imports and exports of cultural goods
◦ Imports and exports of cultural services
Measures
GDP and value added for policy purpose:
countries need be compared to each other
 However important to go beyond GDP measures
to include:
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◦ Demand side: national cultural expenditure
◦ Non monetary indictors
 Cultural practices
 Identify minimum list of non monetary indicators
Areas of investigation
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Demand side
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Extended concepts
◦ Externalities : maybe consider only as non
monetary indicators?
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Points to consider
◦ Digitalization process: streaming etc., youtube
◦ OECD/WTO Trade in value added project
◦ Foreign Affiliate Statistics
Data sources
SNA
 Administrative data
 Business registers
 Cultural consumption survey
 Cultural participation survey
 Household expenditure survey
 Taxes
 Time use surveys
 Other satellite accounts
 Visitor survey
 New forms
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◦ Electronic transactions
◦ Big data : example: The billion prize project
Choice of classifications
Type of measures
Names of classifications
Economic
Classifications
Production:
International Standard Industrial
Classification (ISIC 4)
Production
Central Product Classification Version 2
Trade
Goods: Harmonized Commodity
Description and Coding System (HS)
Services: Extended Balance of Payments
(EBOPS)
Employment
International Standard Classification of
Occupations (ISCO 08)
Social
International Classification of Activities for
Time-Use (ICATUS)
Government
Classification of the Functions of
Government
COICOP
Classification of Individual Consumption by
Purpose
COPNI
Classification of the Purposes of Non-profit
Institutions
Others?
Classifications
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UIS will continue participating in classification revision
process to improve culture visibility
COICOP, ICATUS under revision
CPC: soon: meanwhile new guidelines will be published
ISCO ?
Allocation factors
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to define allocation factors
 For which purposes?
◦ Excluding non cultural element
Building from previous experiences
 CAB
Manual
 TSA
 National
experiences
 Other Satellite accounts
◦ Non profit institution
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Other points to be considered ?
Thank you!